You Won! Now to spend it...

[Birdjaguar]

If you won a lottery for $5,000 USD (or your local equivalent), how would you spend it?

 

[rah]

I have no debt, and getting ready to retire so money isn't critical, so probably on entertainment. Take a golf trip, something for the wife.
I say that but I know my daughter would end up with an expensive gift. She knows how to play her father.

 

[Berzerker]

house repairs

 

[BenitoChavez]

Put it into a retirement account. $5,000 now + power of compound interest = retirement sooner.

 

[inthesomeday]

Buy my first car, a used Honda Civic. Save the rest. Just got my license yesterday!

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Various things.

New computer

Replace some things lost to the mold situation two years ago

Fix the organ (the pedals don't work; organ repairs are expensive)

Set some aside for vet expenses for Maddy/any new cat I adopt

Go somewhere that isn't Red Deer; I've been out of town exactly twice in the last 15 years and both times were since March, for surgery in a nearby town.

 

[H4run]

I'll save it, part of it in the form of gold perhaps because inflation can be quite crazy, you cannot trust money these days.

I like to invest on property in the future. And thank God I have 0 debt.

 

[Cutlass]

Travel. Take some trip I've been too cheap to take before.

 

[Josu]

Amortization of mortgage loan

 

[MaryKB]

I don't need $5,000 and I'd feel guilty about getting it for free, so I'd just give it away.

 

[Manfred Belheim]

Probably just save it or stick it on the mortgage.

 

[Peuri]

I've got debt, but payments are proceeding is planned. I don't need anything in particular, so I'd invest in some more stocks.

 

[Lexicus]

Throw it in my savings account, which would roughly double in size

 

[Mise]

throw it on the pile

 

[AmazonQueen]

Gambling is one of the few vices I don't have, I've tried it and I dislike it, but if someone else gave me their lottery winnings I'd go to Iran and visit Persepolis, Isfahan, the Behistun inscription etc.

 

[Broken_Erika]

I'd buy myself a K-Car, a nice reliant automobile.

 

[GoodEnoughForMe]

I'd probably want to put 1k of it towards a trip somewhere and use the rest to pay off debt.

 

[The_J]

Save it right now. Later this year I might have an expensive move, so I might need it.
Not much else, money isn't really an issue. My accomodations during the next (unplanned) trip might be slighty better maybe.

 

[GenMarshall]

It’s going into my student loans.

 

[Ironsided]

I'd use it for longer than usual travels, maybe Galapagos or Nepal and Bhutan.